Barcelona Coach Luis Enrique Values the Great Contribution of Messi

Madrid – The coach of the Spanish football club Barcelona Luis Enrique Martínez valued today the great contribution of his main star: Argentine striker Lionel Messi.

‘Since I got to Barça, where he is needed, there is Leo. If he has to go down to the center of the field to help, he is the most capable and the best solution,’ he said.

The strategist confessed that he prefers to have him close to the adversaries’ goal, but being one of the players that best surpasses the opposite pressure in the midfield has delayed him in his position.

During the most recent meetings, Luis Enrique had to use Messi as a midfielder, in the face of repeated absences due to injury of Andrés Iniesta and Sergio Busquets.

His performance in that position has been so blunt that some specialists have not hesitated to point out that the Argentinan wearing the number 10 shirt would be the best substitute of Xavi Hernández, Barcelona’s ex champion.